Renewable flame-retardant compounds derived from muconic acid
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsBrandon M. Kobilka, Joseph Kuczynski, Jacob T. Porter, Jason T. Wertz
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Abstract
A flame-retardant compound, a process for forming a flame-retardant polymer, and an article of manufacture are disclosed. The flame-retardant compound includes at least one muconic acid moiety and at least one phosphorus-based moiety. The process for forming the flame-retardant polymer includes obtaining a muconic acid compound, obtaining a muconic acid compound, reacting the muconic acid compound with the phosphorus compound to form a flame-retardant compound, and incorporating the flame-retardant compound into a polymer. The article of manufacture comprises a material that contains a flame-retardant compound derived from muconic acid.
Claims4
A flame-retardant compound, comprising:
- at least one moiety derived from muconic acid, having a structure selected from the group consisting of:
- wherein M is a methylene bridge group, and wherein each dotted line represents a covalent bond to a phosphorus atom of a phosphorus-based moiety.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.